RHI Magnesita N.V. is a supplier of refractory products, systems and services. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
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| Company type | Naamloze vennootschap |
|---|---|
| Industry | Refractories |
| Founded | 1908 |
| Headquarters | Vienna, Austria |
Key people | Herbert Cordt (Chairman) de:Stefan Borgas (CEO) |
| Revenue |  €3,571.8 million (2023)[1] |
 €333.9 million (2023)[1] | |
| €171.3 million (2023)[1] | |
Number of employees | 15,000 (2023)[2] |
| Website | www.rhimagnesita.com/ |
History
In 1908 Mining engineer Josef Hörhager discovered a magnesite deposit at Millstätter Alpe in Austria.[3] A German American, Emil Winter, acquired the mining rights and founded the "Austro-American Magnesite Company" (later Radex Austria).[3] In 1974 the company was bought by National Refractories Co. and in 1987 Radex-Heraklith Industriebeteiligungs AG ('RHI AG') emerged from the National Refractories Co. as a result of a management buyout.[3] Then in 1991 RHI AG acquired Veitscher Magnesitwerke Actien-Gesellschaft, a rival business founded by Carl Spaeter in Germany in 1889.[3]
Next, in 1995, RHI AG acquired a majority stake in its previous competitor Didier-Werke AG (founded by Friedrich Ferdinand Didier in 1834 when he acquired a brick and lime firing plant near Szczecin in Poland, and established the factory "Chamottefabrik F. Didier" in Podjuchy, thus becoming one of the first manufacturers of refractory bricks in Germany).[3]
RHI AG acquired Global Industrial Technologies (GIT) in 2000.[3] GIT had a subsidiary, APG (formerly A.P. Green Refractories Company), which has been named as defendant in hundreds of thousands of asbestos-related injury litigation cases.[4] GIT entered bankruptcy under Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code in February 2002.[4] RHI AG sold its North American subsidiaries, including GIT, later in the year.[3]
In 2004 the company was required to pay a civil penalty of $650,000 for failing to undertake asbestos remediation at a plant in Marelan, Quebec, Canada which it had been ordered to sell to Resco Products, Inc. in 1999.[5]
The company completed the takeover of Stopinc AG (Switzerland) in 2012[6] and bought a majority stake in Orient Refractories.[7]
In October 2017 RHI AG merged with Magnesita, a Brazilian competitor, and then abandoned its listing on the Vienna Stock Exchange and instead secured a listing on the London Stock Exchange as RHI Magnesita.[8] Additionally, the RHI Magnesita shares can still be traded via the global market segment of the Vienna Stock Exchange.[9][10]
In May 2021, RHI Magnesita merged its other two Indian subsidiaries, RHI Clasil and RHI India, into Orient Refractories, which was publicly listed.[11] In July 2021, Orient Refractories was renamed to RHI Magnesita India.[12] RHI Magnesita India is publicly listed on the National Stock Exchange of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange.[13]
Operations
The company produces roughly 3 million tons of refractory products each year at 35 main production and 10 main raw material sites around the world.[14][15][16]
References
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